Starring: Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, with Valentine Dyall and Dennis Price
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Music by Max Geldray and The Ray Ellington Quartet
The Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
Script: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon
Recorded: Sunday 2 December 1956
First UK Broadcast: Sunday 25 December 1988 on BBC Radio 2
This show is a special edition, recorded for the BBC Transcription Service. It is based on 5/14 Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest.
Prince John offers the Sheriff of Nottingham 100 gold splonders for the capture of Robin Hood (Neddie). The Sheriff makes a public announcement of the reward of one gold splonder for the capture of Robin Hood, dead or alive. Grytpype and Moriarty set forth on a coach ride through Sherwood Forest. Also on the coach are Minnie and Henry. The coach is waylaid by Robin Hood’s band. Grytpype and Moriarty join the band as C melody saxophonists. They persuade Robin to enter an archery contest. He does so and wins, whereupon Grytpype and Moriarty remove his disguise. Robin is arrested. Prince John gives the Sheriff his 100 gold splonders and he in turn gives one of them to Grytpype and Moriarty. Robin is thrown into prison. Together with his lieutenant, Friar Balsam (also in the prison), they escape from cell 25 into cell 26, where they find Eccles. The Sheriff offers to ransom them for 1000 golden splonders. They phone Norris, who sends Bluebottle with the loot. As the Sheriff and Prince John are about to tie Bluebottle to a stake, Robin, Friar Balsam, and Eccles (having escaped from prison) arrive on the scene. After a big fight, the Prince and Sheriff agree to let Robin and his men go in return for the ransom money. The show ends with Christmas greetings by the Goons to the Commonwealth nations.
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